153.67
Announcing contracts available for professional design or design-build services.

Each public authority
planning to contract for professional design services or design-build services shall publicly announce all
contracts available from it for such services. The announcements shall:

(A)
Be made in a uniform and consistent manner and shall be made sufficiently in
advance of the time that responses must be received from qualified professional
design firms or design-build firms for the firms
to have an adequate opportunity to submit a statement of interest in the
project;

(B)
Include
a general description of the project, a statement of the specific professional
design services or design-build services
required, and a description of the qualifications required for the
project;

(C)
Indicate
how qualified professional design firms or design-build
firms may submit statements of qualifications in order to be considered
for a contract to design or design-build the
project;

(D)
Be sent
to any of the following that the
public authority considers appropriate:

(1)
Design-build firms, including contractors or other
entities that seek to perform the work as a design-build firm;